Bears safety Eddie Jackson could see the playmaking ability of his team’s offense in practice. Linebacker Danny Trevathan heard coach Matt Nagy preaching that an offensive breakout was around the corner after the Bears defense carried the load in their first two victories.

So after Mitch Trubisky threw for 354 yards and six touchdown passes in a 48-10 victory over the Buccaneers on Sunday at Soldier Field, the Bears defenders were amped to celebrate the full-team, full-game effort.

“I’m hyped over there,” Trevathan said of his reaction on the sideline to the offense. “I’m trying to sit down to get my time, but every time they make a play I can’t help but be happy.

“It feels like we’re a complete team. It’s the first time we did that for four quarters straight. The team is happy where we’re at, but we’re still hungry.”

The Bears defense also did their thing against a hyped Buccaneers offense.

The Bucs entered the game with the NFL’s top passing offense through three games. Veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick had become the first player in NFL history to pass for 400 or more yards in three straight games.

But Fitzpatrick was out of the game by the second half after completing just 9 of 18 passes for 126 yards with two sacks and an interception as the Bucs fell behind 38-3 at halftime. Jameis Winston fared only a little better in his season debut, completing 16 of 20 passes for 145 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions in the second half.

Photos from the Bears' 48-10 win over the Buccaneers at Soldier Field on Sept. 30, 2018.

(Erin Hooley and Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune)

“All week Coach Vic (Fangio) was telling us we had to come with the right mindset to win this type of game,” outside linebacker Leonard Floyd said. “We made sure we kept piling it on. We didn’t want to let up. We didn’t want what happened to them last week, when they came back on Pittsburgh, (to happen to us). We wanted to come out every series and put it on them, to keep them down.”

With three interceptions Sunday, the Bears already have matched through four games the franchise-low eight they totaled in each of the last three seasons. Their 18 sacks, after four Sunday, rank third in Bears history through the first four weeks of the season, behind only the 1987 and 1976 teams, which had 33 and 21 through four games.

The individual accomplishments also are piling up, most notably for outside linebacker Khalil Mack.

Mack has a forced fumble and a sack in each of his first four games with the Bears. He is the first player to record a forced fumble in each of the first four games since 1994, when forced fumbles first were recorded.

“Everybody's playing fast,” Nagy said. “They’re playing relentless. They’re having fun out there. They’re playing aggressive. It’s controlled chaos, and I just love it.”

The defense forced the Bucs to go three-and-out on three of six drives in the first half, and safety Eddie Jackson ended another with an interception. He anticipated Fitzpatrick’s throw to Mike Evans and charged forward for his second pick of the season.

Early in the third, Mack charged toward Winston and swatted at his arm. Winston’s pass floated high into the air, and Trevathan intercepted it. Aaron Lynch’s first career interception came after the two-minute warning in the second half. He jumped into the air to grab Winston’s pass and punctuate the Bears’ victory.

The combination of a clicking offense and a surging defense is precisely what the Bears had been dreaming about during the first three weeks.

“It’s a vision (where) you can see what’s in front of us,” Jackson said. “If they come out striking like that every week, it’s going to be scary. It’s definitely going to be scary.”